Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 official

Qualcomm’s new flagship SoC is called the Snapdragon 855 after all, not the Snapdragon 8150 as previously speculated.

The new chipset’s main focus is on 5G and unsurprisingly, AI. It has a claimed 3x better overall performance and 2x improved AI performance when compared to its rivals.

Qualcomm has also revealed a new-gen in-display fingerprint scanner called the 3D Sonic Scanner. It uses ultrasonic sound waves to map a finger in 3D. 3D mapping makes it more secure than the optical in-display fingerprint scanners that we see currently.

The Snapdragon 855 has the X50 modem for 5G connectivity. Qualcomm claims that this modem can support ‘multi-gigabit’ 5G download speeds.

Update

The chip is based on a 7 nm FinFET process and sports the Kryo 485 CPU which is claimed to be a 45 per cent better performer than its predecessor.

The octa-core SoC now has four small Cortex-A55 cores, three big Cortex-A76 cores, and finally, the biggest ‘prime’ Cortex-A76 core for super high-intensity tasks.

The 855 also gets a dedicated vision processor for depth mapping at 60 fps videos and other AR applications.